Perfect Storm?
... 2015 and 2016 [2] . And, amongst other G7 nations, Japan and Germany face similar challenges, again self-imposed, following political decisions to dispense with nuclear power. This matters because for an industrial society energy is, as the American energy commentator Chris Martenson observes, the ‘master resource [3] .’ In a Maslovian hierarchy of [international security] issues, the climate crisis surely represents (with the possible exception of nuclear war) the greatest existential threat to human society. The issue is doubly pressing with developments in the oil-&-gas industry and with oil ...